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  • P peterchen

    I should remote-kick you anyway, just for the principles. But it's definitely cool to have Chris point this out :cool: :jig: Only one? So I can't submit Stallshield, Installsh*t, and Shields-me-from-installing as separate entries? :(


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    Vikram A Punathambekar
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    peterchen wrote:

    I should remote-kick you anyway, just for the principles.

    Does that mean you don't like my calling you Mr. Chen? :~ If so, I'll just call you Peter. I meant no offense.

    Cheers, Vikram.


    The cold will freeze our stares We won't care...

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    • B Bradml

      Have you tried Sage Accpac[^]? I have seen it in action a couple of times and it is fantastic.


      Brad Australian - Bradml on "MVP Status" If this was posted in a programming board please rate my answer

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      Stuart Dootson
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      It's not like I chose SAP - it's a company wide tool for all sorts of stuff. I only use it for recording my hours (which then get marked against the budgets for different tasks) - it's bad enough for that. When we used VAX/VMS, I wrote a character mode app. for time booking - it was so much more usable than SAP it's unbelievable.

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      • R Rage

        Abu Mami wrote:

        Did you ever try to uninstall it? Can't be done.

        Well, you can. On the website of symantec, there is a tutorial about how installing their products proeprly. The first three steps of the tutorial is launching a small executables that removes everything from symantec on your hard drive, so that it is clean for them to be reinstalled (which are point 5 and 6 of the tutorial). Simply launch the executable removing everything and do not reinstall, and you are done. I can't seem to find a link, but it is on the symantec website somewhere.

        ~RaGE();

        I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
        Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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        Phil J Pearson
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        Here: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039?Open&docid=2005092709200113&nsf=sharedtech.nsf&view=docid[^] The URL is as easy to type as the crapware is to remove!

        Phil


        The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.

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        • B Bradml

          Ok what is the worst piece of software you have ever worked with and why: (It can be any software or code that you have personally worked with) Not limited to something you have developed, can be an OS


          Brad Australian - Captain See Sharp on "Religion" any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.

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          Gary Wheeler
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          IBM Visual Age for C++ on OS/2 I feel soiled just mentioning it. X|


          Software Zen: delete this;

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          • R Rage

            Abu Mami wrote:

            Did you ever try to uninstall it? Can't be done.

            Well, you can. On the website of symantec, there is a tutorial about how installing their products proeprly. The first three steps of the tutorial is launching a small executables that removes everything from symantec on your hard drive, so that it is clean for them to be reinstalled (which are point 5 and 6 of the tutorial). Simply launch the executable removing everything and do not reinstall, and you are done. I can't seem to find a link, but it is on the symantec website somewhere.

            ~RaGE();

            I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
            Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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            Dan Neely
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            ...and if needed to assure a successful install process should be built into the installer app in the first place. :mad::mad::mad:

            -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

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            • V Vikram A Punathambekar

              peterchen wrote:

              I should remote-kick you anyway, just for the principles.

              Does that mean you don't like my calling you Mr. Chen? :~ If so, I'll just call you Peter. I meant no offense.

              Cheers, Vikram.


              The cold will freeze our stares We won't care...

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              peterchen
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              Relax :) It is of course cool to have some more or less self-chosen antics maintained by others. I'm not only weird, you help me be weird in an almost controllable way. But of course, I'd never admit that publicly :cool:


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              • S Sebastian Schneider

                Yeah. I am currently trying to access a third-party-whitelist in order to add some addresses. Opening the freaking whitelist (4 entries so far) took 15 minutes. Will someone please kill me?

                Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

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                Prakash Nadar
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                Sebastian Schneider wrote:

                Will someone please kill me?

                no, you cant get out of that email client so easily.


                -Prakash

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                • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                  Becuase they lack the very spirit. Google is the best when it comes to Internet search. That doesn't mean they should poke their nose into everything. *I have modified the post to exempt google earth from the blacklist*


                  [Frozen Thoughts] | [My Life - My Prayer]
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                  Prakash Nadar
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                  the primary purpose of gtalk is to have voice chat (that is why it is talk) and not text chat and so far i havent seen any other software that gives better voice clarity than gtalk.


                  -Prakash

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                  • P Prakash Nadar

                    the primary purpose of gtalk is to have voice chat (that is why it is talk) and not text chat and so far i havent seen any other software that gives better voice clarity than gtalk.


                    -Prakash

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                    Rajesh R Subramanian
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                    May be true, but the interface and those white, cheesy windows just make me sick and I never bothered to try a voice chat using it (well I never do a voice chat anyway, if I feel like talking, I do it over the phone). Google earth is a great piece of software though.


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                    • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                      May be true, but the interface and those white, cheesy windows just make me sick and I never bothered to try a voice chat using it (well I never do a voice chat anyway, if I feel like talking, I do it over the phone). Google earth is a great piece of software though.


                      [Frozen Thoughts] | [My Life - My Prayer]
                      Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero ப்ரம்மா

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                      Prakash Nadar
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                      Well using gtalk is very cheap compared to phone when talking to people in other country. If you just look at its purpose and how much memory it consumes, then you would realise that it is doing its job quite correctly, compared to yahoo and msn that consumes memory in the range of 30-40mb.


                      -Prakash

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                      • P Prakash Nadar

                        Well using gtalk is very cheap compared to phone when talking to people in other country. If you just look at its purpose and how much memory it consumes, then you would realise that it is doing its job quite correctly, compared to yahoo and msn that consumes memory in the range of 30-40mb.


                        -Prakash

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                        Rajesh R Subramanian
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                        Sounds like a pretty good explanation. If you are this sure, it must be good then. I will give it a try. :)


                        [Frozen Thoughts] | [My Life - My Prayer]
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                        • L l a u r e n

                          norm .net wrote:

                          .net is a box of never ending treasures, every day I get find another gem.

                          norm seriously... do you do the steve ballmer dance every morning or something??? :wtf:

                          "there is no spoon" {me}

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                          NormDroid
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                          Sure thing hun. .net rocks and you know it ;P

                          .net is a box of never ending treasures, every day I get find another gem.

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